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H. K. SILL FABRIC Filed.0ct. 4. 1922 ATTwP/YEY raaaaa July 21, 1.926.

P UNIT-E o STATE HELEN K SILL, OI BOOKVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

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- Application filed Qctober 4, 1922. Serial No. 592,876.

My invention relates more especially to 7 that class of fabrics that areused for sheltering growing vegetation, more especially tobacco, and anobject of my invention, among others, is to provide a fabric of thiskind provided with means that shall enable it to be rapidly put in placewhenever 1t frames are commonly arranged, en

field and supported b said posts,

tojs'ai wire as by means of- I not cord. This curing the fabric to shallhave been displaced by extraneous forces, aswind and storm; and afurther object of my invention isto provide a fabric of this class withmeans to limit the extent of tear or rupture caused from extraneousforces, as wind and storm.

Different formsof fabric embodying my invention and in the constructionand use of which the objects herein-set out, as well as others, may

accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is aface view of a piece offabnc embodying myinvention.

Figure'2 is a face view of a'pieceof fabric illustrating one adaptationof my invention. Figure 3 is a view in section through the fabricillustrated in'Figure 2.

y In the use of fabric especially employed for covering tobacco fieldsfor the purpose of sheltering and shadingthe tobaccoplants, ported posts'disposed at intervals over 1: e' field and thefabric orclothislattached to wires extending inv different. directions across thethe fabric being-secure fabric in use at'the present time provided withselvage edges through which the. fastening cords are passed in sethewire frames. .Wind and storm. frequently places severe strains upon thisfabric to such extent that it is torn from the frames,such tear commonlytaking place just inside the selvage edge, and it is then a diflicultmatter to again secure the fabric in place, for the owing to thefactthat it'is not practical to make the fabric or cloth of sufficientstrength to withstand the stress of all storms.

In carrying my invention into effect I do pro ose to strengthen thecrosswise or filling t reads ator near the outenselvage in a manner thecloth at or near the outer edge, but I pro se to-so construct the fabricthat the tearmg shall be localized and confined within certain bounds.

body 5 of the fabric. be attained, is illustrated in the.

attach the fabric to the wire frames,

reason that there is not enough strength in the body of the fabrieto-resist the strains,

to interfere with the tearing of- To this end I provide a fabric 5 ofany ordinary weave or construction, which fabric may be produced of anydesirable width and which is provided at its edge with a selvage 6 in amanner common heretofore produced. This selvage 6 will be" employed forsecuring the fabric to the wire. frames in the manner as heretoforepracticed. When the cloth, by reason of excessive strains, shall become:torn, and usual at or near this selvage 6, I rovide a secondary selvage7 located at asultable disto fabrics as istance from the outer selvage6, that portion 8 of the fabric-between the two selvages beingpreferably formed The selvage 7 ispreferably located at such distancefrom the selvage 6 that when the fabric becomestorn between the twoselvages, that one 7 may be made use of in place of the selvage 6 tortet estretching of the fabric in use usually enabling it to be taken uto this extent. 1

While a fabric 'em odying a single selvage 7 at a redetermined distancefrom the the same as the main selva e 6 will answer my purpose to a veryI satis actory extent, yet inla preferred form I provide two selvages,as shown in Figure .1, the second secondary selvage- 9 being locatedclose this may be made" become torn between the vages. It is my purpose,use-of these secondary selvages to make a fold or tuck 10, as'shown inFigures 2 and 3 of the drawin secured for t e purpose of attaching thefabric in place become torn between the selvages.

- My invention contemplates a secondary selvage, and by this I mean astructure not at the outer edge of-the fabric when the goods are new,but which structure, after certain wear and tear, most frequently bystretching and by storm resulting in the loss of the first oredgeselvage, will leave this secondary selvage at the approximate edge ofthe fabric.

7 It is not practical for obvious reasons, to. make the cloth ofsufiicicnt strength to resist the stress of all storms, some to thesecondary selvage 7, and

two secondary selonl tears the cloth but breaks the wires an osts thatsupport them. Recognizing the act that there are times and conditionsunder which use of should the fabric 7 however, in the' to which thecords may be of. which 1 are accompanied by, hail andwind that not llO'the cloth is liableto be torn- I do not propose to interfere withthecommon tearing of the cloth at or near the selvage, as tears at thisplace are more convenient for mending than at any other, place 7 in thefabric. I do, however, propose to localize such tears within certain.definite limits of the selvage by providing the secondary selvage orselvages, as hereinbefore describe'd,'located at a certain distance fromthe edge selvage.

I claim- 1. A piece of awning fabric for protecting; vegetation andcomprising, abody, a marginal selvage, a narrow strip adjoining saidselvage and of the same texture and strength as the body, and asecondary selvage located between said body and said narrow strip andadjacent the marginal selv wage to prevent tearing of the narrow stripfrom extending into the body, said narrow strip localizing tearingstrains between the two selvages; 1

2. A piece of awning fabric for I rotecting vegetation and comprising aody, a plurality of adjacently positioned selvage moaese strips at themargin of the body, said rselvage strips being separated by narrowstrips of the same texture andstrength as the body, whereby tearingstrains are localized to a zone between the selvage strips with thansaid body to serve as a suspensionmeans for said awning, a secondaryselvage Woven into the body of the fabric in narrowly spaced relation tothe selvage edge to serve as a secondary means for suspen- Sion of thefabric when the selvage edge becomes useless, and a localizing striplocated between saidse'lvages and ofsubstantially the same strength andtexture as the body of the fabric to localize tearing strains betweensaid selvages, and the secondary selvage preventing such tearing strainsfrom extending into the body of the fabric.

' HELEN K. SILL.

